Notes from Meeting with Rosie Martinez,AcademicLeadershipAcademy
@ Miguel Contreras Learning Complex (4/7/11)
To: Denise Rendon, Brian Cramp, Joe Davidock, Jessica Ravelo
From: Gabriel Paez
Date: 4/8/11
Sharing Facilities
Sharing facilities has been pretty easy, some problems have occurred when some groups don’t keep
Each school has a separate lunch schedule, bell schedule, and graduation
There is one central main office, but each school has its own main office,ALAtakes their own attendance and tardies
Each school has its own Master Calendar and PD schedule
Rosie pays 28% of janitorial fees
Management
No dean, no lit/math coach, no Title1 coordinator, no PSA counselor
Lead Math teacher runs their master schedule, runs budget—Rosie makes decisions
Leadership team rotates every 2 years, contains teachers who are staggered for continuity purposes
Teachers take extra duties: text book,
Master Calendar
FollowStateEd Code, not LAUSD—we have mandated minutes we need to meet, and we can organize them however we want
School Plan
Utilizes AVID template
Pathways class, 9-12: 9th: AVID strategies/Foundations; 10th: Test taking strategies; 11th: Research colleges; 12th: college apps and financial aid (FAFSA)
No career pathways; instead a focus on Leadership and College Prep
Sports
Sports are after school, practices start at 3:30, end at 5:30 (sometimes 6)
Coaches have agreed to let students from different SLC’s to participate in sports, and sports have worked out, over time it has run more efficiently
Rosie has thoughts to eliminate some sports because of staffing and late nights
Equity
Get to equity: if you are not at equity now, write in your plan how you will get to equity
Middle school students select from available schools and 90% of the time (Rosie’s #), students get first choice
PD
Three cycles covered in PD throughout the year
Pathways/Advisory Curriculum
Grade Level meetings—horizontal planning
Content planning
Testing
No Periodic Assessments from the District
Teachers identified Power Standards, Curriculum Maps, turns them into Rosie, who monitors them. No weekly lesson plans turned in
CST scores, very little improvement—Rosie gets heat from the district, but this past year there was a 55 point increase in API
Not data driven enough, but working on getting there
Students
Rosie recommends going 9-12, and getting WASC accreditation immediately
Funding
Year 1,ADA(average daily attendance) and Per Pupil Funding
$4,333 x per pupil every day + categorical funding (Title I)
Rosie says she has more than enough money every year
Title I would be roughly $300k per year for 400 students
Pathways
Students are with the same teacher for 4 years
Different year long, 35 minute classes per grade level focusing on specific skills
Our Ideas
9th gradeSuccessAcademy, 1 semester
Student Organization: note taking, goal setting
Career Pathway #1: Education
Career Pathway #2: Sociology
College and Career Preparation: Resume, A-G requirements, College Research
Second Semester, Health
10th grade
What we need to figure out:
What is our bell schedule going to look like?
How many classes will we offer? How will we offer a Pathways like class?
School minute requirements?
@ Miguel Contreras Learning Complex (4/7/11)
To: Denise Rendon, Brian Cramp, Joe Davidock, Jessica Ravelo
From: Gabriel Paez
Date: 4/8/11
Sharing Facilities
Sharing facilities has been pretty easy, some problems have occurred when some groups don’t keep
Each school has a separate lunch schedule, bell schedule, and graduation
There is one central main office, but each school has its own main office,ALAtakes their own attendance and tardies
Each school has its own Master Calendar and PD schedule
Rosie pays 28% of janitorial fees
Management
No dean, no lit/math coach, no Title1 coordinator, no PSA counselor
Lead Math teacher runs their master schedule, runs budget—Rosie makes decisions
Leadership team rotates every 2 years, contains teachers who are staggered for continuity purposes
Teachers take extra duties: text book,
Master Calendar
FollowStateEd Code, not LAUSD—we have mandated minutes we need to meet, and we can organize them however we want
School Plan
Utilizes AVID template
Pathways class, 9-12: 9th: AVID strategies/Foundations; 10th: Test taking strategies; 11th: Research colleges; 12th: college apps and financial aid (FAFSA)
No career pathways; instead a focus on Leadership and College Prep
Sports
Sports are after school, practices start at 3:30, end at 5:30 (sometimes 6)
Coaches have agreed to let students from different SLC’s to participate in sports, and sports have worked out, over time it has run more efficiently
Rosie has thoughts to eliminate some sports because of staffing and late nights
Equity
Get to equity: if you are not at equity now, write in your plan how you will get to equity
Middle school students select from available schools and 90% of the time (Rosie’s #), students get first choice
PD
Three cycles covered in PD throughout the year
Pathways/Advisory Curriculum
Grade Level meetings—horizontal planning
Content planning
Testing
No Periodic Assessments from the District
Teachers identified Power Standards, Curriculum Maps, turns them into Rosie, who monitors them. No weekly lesson plans turned in
CST scores, very little improvement—Rosie gets heat from the district, but this past year there was a 55 point increase in API
Not data driven enough, but working on getting there
Students
Rosie recommends going 9-12, and getting WASC accreditation immediately
Funding
Year 1,ADA(average daily attendance) and Per Pupil Funding
$4,333 x per pupil every day + categorical funding (Title I)
Rosie says she has more than enough money every year
Title I would be roughly $300k per year for 400 students
Pathways
Students are with the same teacher for 4 years
Different year long, 35 minute classes per grade level focusing on specific skills
Our Ideas
9th gradeSuccessAcademy, 1 semester
Student Organization: note taking, goal setting
Career Pathway #1: Education
Career Pathway #2: Sociology
College and Career Preparation: Resume, A-G requirements, College Research
Second Semester, Health
10th grade
What we need to figure out:
What is our bell schedule going to look like?
How many classes will we offer? How will we offer a Pathways like class?
School minute requirements?